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Friday, 10 January 2014

Tilly and Friends: App Review

Tilly and Friends is a fairly new CBeebies TV series which Sasha has only really seen in passing. The programme follows the adventures of Tilly and her five animal friends. It looks so sweet that I didn't want to pass up the opportunity of letting Sasha have a play with the brand new Tilly and Friends app which has come out.

Featuring characters created
by leading children’s author Polly Dunbar, rich art and animation from the
successful CBeebies TV series and the voice of Alex Kelly (who plays Tilly
in the show), the Tilly and Friends app allows children to play
along with Tilly, Pru, Tumpty, Doodle, Hector and Tiptoe in a fun
series of 32 mini games.

The wide range of games
includes educational, creative, memory and action based activities, such as Find Tilly, Stop
Tiptoe, Don’t Crash, Tumpty’s Box, Spell My Name, What’s Biggest, Simple Sums and many more. There are 3 difficulty levels which the player is encouraged through. It's aimed at preschoolers, and what I most liked about this app was the fact that there are no in-app purchases. There's also the lovely graphics and the very child-friendly encouragement screens.

The app currently costs £1.99 in the App Store and I think it's a great source of entertainment and education for young ones.

Disclaimer: we were sent a copy of this for the purposes of this review; all views here are our own.

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